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- Affront
- To insult someone or something EXAMPLE:Your so fat you
have your own zip code!
- Allusion
- To hint at something instead of saying it directly
EXAMPLE: Hey! That pizza smells really good! (Hint, hint)
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- Buffoonery
- Foolish or playful behavior. EXAMPLE: Monkeys in a cage
at the zoo.
- Burlesque
- synonym to caricature (see caricature below)
- Caricature
- humor by making a person or animal have exaggerated
disorders or mutations EXAMPLE:A picture of Ross Perot
with elephant ears
- Comparison
- To compare two or more things to the same situation.
EXAMPLE: "I'm hungry as a bear. In fact, I hear my
stomach growling."
- Contrast
- To compare in respect to differences. The differences
between things having a similar nature.EXAMPLE: "
Not enough sense to golf in a lightning storm."
- Cut
- To hurt someone's feelings EXAMPLE: Your stupid!
- Deride
- To make fun of someone EXAMPLE: When Eddy read his
speech, the students laughed and made faces at him
- Denunciation
- A public speech when an important person gives something
a bad name.EXAMPLE Oprah gave beef a bad name.
- Farce
- A ridiculous situation marked by an improbable plot.
EXAMPLE: Getting a pie in the face!
- Gag
- A remark or act that is created to make people laugh
EXAMPLE: Putting shaving cream on someone's hand's and
tickling their face with a feather ( so when they reach
up to their face they get covered in shaving cream)
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- Gibe
- To make fun of with unkind words or noises. EXAMPLE
Holding something just out of someone's reach and saying
nah, nah, nanah, nah.
- Humor
- Something that is designed to be comical or amusing.
Hyperbole
- Lots of exaggeration (stretching the truth) EXAMPLE:
"I'm hungry enough to eat an elephant."
- Imitation
- A copy of a sound, person, or thing. EXAMPLE; Chris: I
love pizza! Jen: I love pizza, too!
- Innuendo
- A very little and weak hint. (See allusion for EXAMPLE)
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- Insult
- A thing said to make someone feel bad. EXAMPLE Your so
poor I saw your mama kickin' a can. I said Watcha
doin?She said Movin'.
- Invective
- see insult (above)
- Irk
- To be annoying. EXAMPLE:Ba,ba,ba,ba,doo,doo,yak.yak.
- Irony
- To say something that is the opposite of the truth.
EXAMPLE: Driving home in your brand new car and crashing.
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- Jest
- A laughing stock, a joke, the main point in
laughter.EXAMPLE: They all laughed when the man fell
down.
- Joke
- Something said to make someone laugh. EXAMPLE: Person
A:Why did the chicken cross the road? Person B: I don't
know. Person A:He wanted to get to the other side.
- Knock
- Very harsh criticism. EXAMPLE: Your report stinks more
than a skunk!
- Lampoon
- A put down.EXAMPLE: You run wicked slow.
- Mimicry
- The action of mocking someone by imitation. EXAMPLE:
Pretending you are the teacher when she turns her back!
- Needle
- To make someone do something by making fun
of them. EXAMPLE:If you don't do it, your a chicken!
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- Outburst
- To shout out.
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- Parody
- To imitate or ridicule another. EXAMPLE: Robin Williams
imitated a nanny in Mrs. Doubtfire.
- Political
- Humor that makes fun of our government offices,and/or
officers.EXAMPLE:
- Pun
- Humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or
more of its meanings EXAMPLE: I have a hot dog!
- Quip
- A fast sarcastic term.
- Remark
- To say something of opinion or judgement EXAMPLE: I like
that painting.
- Repetition
- In many jokes something may happen twice exactly the same
way, but the third time it happens differently.
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- Sarcasm
- To use bitter or ironic language directed at an
individual.EXAMPLE: That's a great hat, to bad they don't
come large enough to fit your head.
- Satire
- Humor that ridicules human vices.EXAMPLE:
- Slapstick
- Humor that involves a great deal of physical horseplay.
EXAMPLE: America Funniest Home Videos
- Taunt
- To challenge some by tempting them, insuting them, or
using sarcasam. EXAMPLE: What's da matter? Doesn't da
little baby wanna steal da comics?
- Verbal Jab
- To make fun of someone verbally.
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- Wisecrack
- When someone who speaks back uses fresh words.
- Wit
- The ability to relate things that are humorous in order
to amuse. To be clever.
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